Wind direction north west with velocity in summer 2-3 on beaufort scale and 3-4 in winter

Humidity

1.30

Raining Season

Winter

Tide Rate

0.46 over the standard level

Port Geographical Location

The City of Alexandria is located at the west end of the River Nile between the Mediterranean Sea and Mariot Lake. It is considered the second most important city and the main port in Egypt, it handles over three quarters of Egypt’s foreign trade. Alexandria port consists of two harbors (East and west) separated by a T-shaped peninsula. The East harbor is shallow and is not used in navigation. The West harbor is used for commercial shipping. The harbor is formed by two converging breakwaters.

Geographical Partitoning

First Zone

It is the area extending between berth 5 and berth 15, used for general cargo handling.

Second Zone

It is situated between berths 16 and 28, and deals with 4 types of activities: unified cargoes including roro, passengers' terminal, stuffed bulk cargoes, and barge discharge.

Third Zone

It is located between berths 35 and 47, and it's used for handling general cargo and barge discharge.

Fourth Zone

It is located between berths 50 and 68, and it's used for handling containers, cement, coal, barge discharge, fertilizers, and general cargo.

Fifth Zone

It is situated between zone 71(a) and 85, and it's used for handling: molasses, timber, some types of general cargoes, barge discharge, grains and flour.

Sixth Zone

Oil Dock is situated at the western boundaries of the port, encompasses oil berths 87 / 1,2,3,4,5, and it's used for handling edible oil, oil products and for providing bunkers. It also includes berth 86 situated at the port’s limits, used for handling livestock. The port do not include oil storage facilities, but oil berths are connected to a refinery through a 2 km long pipeline.

Two ships (uss karny) and (usns karson city) had moored in the berths… in the first visit of the ships that follow the American marine to the port since 2009 … Mrs. Drthy Shia the vice chairman of the American diplomatic group had pointed that the visiting of the two ships to the Egyptian ports is an important event and it reflect the importance of the strategy cooperation between the two countries … and the American embassy in Cairo had mentioned that (the visiting of the two American ships are assuring the strategy relationships are assuring the strategy relationships between the USA...,Read more...,

Mr.Reda Elghandour the formal speaker of Alexandria port had assured that the storage of the grains in the port stores and silos head reached to 985 ton 301 thousand ton from it is wheat.And he clarified that the total No. of ships in the port is 134 ship … twelve ships had departed the port and another 13 ships had arrived… and there 47 ships had moored in the berths… the electronic system had registered in the gate of enter & exit 11099 general trailers to and from the port and there are 169trailer of wheat had left the port and they had 570 ton and there are 50 carriage wagon had...,Read more...,

Alexandria Port Authority had a great activity this week in the movement of ships, trailers, and receiving the strategy goods…where it is unloading the ship (Wadi El Raian) that is loading 63000 ton of wheat that came from Russia …the two ships (Kandava) that loaded with 33000 ton of Solar that came from Tunisia … and the ship (D.N.K Abd ElRazik) that loaded with 31000 ton of Solar which came from Saudi Arabia … and it is unloading the ship (Abr Hard Arkatic) that loaded with 29000 ton of gasoline which came from Malta … and the ship (Rama Gaz) that loaded with 2900 ton of stove gas...,Read more...,

The port in one week - Alexandria port had in this week an activity in movement of ships , trailers and receiving the strategy goods where it is unloading the ship (Abd El Latif) (sefatory Beuter) and (Wadi El Areesh) which is loading 106000 ton wheat that came from Russia and Ukraine, the ship (Angilika Ann) which is loaded with 30000 ton Gasoline that came from Bulgaria and it is unloading the ferry (Grand Cicelia) and it had 411 Private car that came from Spain and the ship (Sarasina) that loaded with 18000 ton from Sunflower oil that came from Russia , the ship (Finas Bright) (Geknes...,Read more...,

R.adm/ Medhat Attya - Alexandria port authority chairman lead a committee to survey and control all assets and properties of the port which unused since ten years which concerned a treasure because of its areas and storage and he also assured to make a completion plane to give the benefit from it and neglect it. El messa newspaper 10-1-2018,,